Archived Quotes

The American people must be the ultimate judge of the public good.

Change doesn’t happen from the top down;

it happens from the bottom up.

Discourage litigation.

Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of

being a good man.

There will still be business enough.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

You can’t wait for others to fix problems;

you have to act.

If there is not the war,

you don't get the great general;

if there is not a great occasion,

you don't get a great statesman;

if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace,

no one would have known his name.

My wife and I were happy for 20 years.

Then we met.

If the world was ending,

I think I would grab some Cinnamon Toast Crunch,

a bunch of water,

and I'd probably just...

I'd probably go crazy.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

None of us got where we are solely by pulling

ourselves up by our bootstraps.

Never give up,

for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn

Harriet Beecher Stowe.

He who makes a beast of himself

gets rid of the pain of being a man.

I can hear you.

The rest of the world hears you.

And the people who knocked these buildings down

will hear all of us soon.

Hard work and persistence are the keys to success.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

If ever time should come,

when vain and aspiring men shall possess

the highest seats in government,

our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots.

The purpose of human life is to serve and to show

compassion and the will to help others.

The future belongs to the dreamers,

not the critics.

Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum

which God seeks to fill...

With one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need

and the other in the hand of Christ,

He could get across the vacuum.

What people say,

what people do,

and what they say they do are entirely different things.